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[Motorola Droid X2] ChixdigSCARs:
1h 42m 54s on battery

Battery level 70%

Display 65%

Browser 21%

Phone Idle 9%

Cell Standby 4%

WiFi 2%

I've been doing some heavy surfing on Wifi, sent/received 20 text messages and d/L'd a couple of apps.
[Motorola Droid X2] Heelpir8:
I recalibrated my phone's battery last night after having similar issues and the difference has been night and day. Much better performance now.
[Motorola Droid X2] LancerV:
Battery at 75 percent been on for 5hrs and display has been on for an hour and half
[Motorola Droid X2] colonel187:
Just waiting for mine to die. I hope the calibration helps me too.
[Motorola Droid X2] juhde:
Phone idle isn't killing your battery, something else is.

This is after all night un plugged

Same day (today) at 0545 minimal usage.

You guys either have bad installs or something is running when it shouldn't be.
[Motorola Droid X2] colonel187:
That's what I used to get on froyo...
[Motorola Droid X2] Loswave:
I'm having the same problem. All in all I'm still really liking GB. I used to have some serious memory leak issues, after about 24 hours everything would get slow, and I'd start getting duplicate sms... Don't even get me started on downloads and updates from the marketplace.

Anyways, back to the task at hand, at first I thought it was because the phone was staying awake almost constantly, but there aren't any procs or services that seem to be pulling a whole heck of a lot of power. Plus, from the pics above it appears that phone is chilling awake most of the time too, although I can't tell. If you wouldn't mind hitting the graph and posting that pic that'd be a help.

I'm charging the battery to run through calibration now, and hopefully that'll work, I'll post back either way. If it doesn't I'm going to flash sbf, and back to p3 GB. Seems like it's working fine for most people, so it's gotta be a simple quirk.

P.S. I don't think anybody means anything bad when they say they're running P3 GB. Everywhere you go if you post a question or problem the first thing people will do is ask you what your running, exactly what your running. Anyways, P3 did a great job! I'm determined to get my delinquent device to cooperate.
[Motorola Droid X2] kdaz:
Ok I dont know what everybody else is doing but I'm getting great battery life here. About 32 hrs here, a lot in standby but normal usage during the day (some web, some texts, a couple of calls, this forum a lot, email) and my battery is at 40%. Running nitros rom with some extra debloating, no location services, fb + twitter syncing every 2 and 4hrs respectively, and using juice defender. I installed while battery was at 100.
[Motorola Droid X2] juhde:
Update nearly 24 hours since I unplugged YESTERDAY!.

If I can get battery life like this on gingerbread, so can you.

All of these screen shots are taken in one battery cycle, I never plugged in since last night. If your battery life sucks since updating to gingerbread, it's your fault, not the update. Learn how linux works before you blame it for your own short comings.
[Motorola Droid X2] HelpMeJebus:
I finally took the plunge and upgraded and I'm really glad I did. Fortunately I'm a success story. Let it idle for eight hours over night and it went down a whopping 3%. Maybe those with battery issues should try a fresh install?
[Motorola Droid X2] colonel187:
Just did a fresh install. Any other pointers besides your general high horse negative comments.
[Motorola Droid X2] LancerV:
On the soak test moto said battery life will be bad for the first couple days due to it syncing alot of new stuff for gingerbread
[Motorola Droid X2] colonel187:
Yeah but that would cause android to have a higher percentage wouldn't it?

I just un-installed all user apps and am currently monitoring the battery over next few hours. My battery dropped %60 over night without use last night from 100%.

The thing that baffles me is I have all the same apps on froyo before the upgrade and I got around 20 hours easy.
[Motorola Droid X2] LancerV:
Might look at what's running in services I use system panel app to see what is using what there are alot of poorly coded apps and it will show even more on gingerbread
[Motorola Droid X2] colonel187:
"System"process is the one using all my battery. I have 1 downloaded app (system panel) just whatever was left after de-bloating GB update. Been off charger for 1 hour and idle, already down 10%

Im pretty sure something is screwy with gb update.
[Motorola Droid X2] Loswave:
Look bro, personally I've been using linux for 10 years, and I'm an android dev to boot. So why don't we just not assume everybody else is an idiot ok? Nobody is blaming the update itself, and it doesn't mean it's user error either. Have you never installed an update to anything that works for almost everybody but you? I'm betting you have. Furthermore if you really knew how linux worked you might realize that it doesn't take a whole lot to break it, and sometimes you have nothing to do with it. Anyways, I'm not here to argue, just throwing out there, that the people who are having problems aren't necessarily idiots, and it would be cool if anybody who wants to help those of us with the problem would not just assume that's the case.

Moving right along I started battery calibration last night, it's been running for 15 and a half hours now with moderate usage. Down to 7%. I used to get about 18 hours of moderate usage leaving me with about 30 or 40% left. Not as bad as it was yesterday, where it went from 100 to 15% in 9 hours with no usage and a steady signal.

Right now I'm still thinking it may be something issuing partial wakelocks all the time and not releasing them... I haven't really found a good way to verify that though, spare parts can't do it cause it's a more or less stock gb rom. I've manually inspected the wakelocks and not found anything too conclusive there either. If all else fails we can always reflash, I'm sure if it get's done enough times with the right combo of tools it will work.
[Motorola Droid X2] Sandso9:
okay i started messing with something. battery life on this phone is quite amazing for some reason android isn't reading the battery correctly after the first 8 hours of it being unplugged i was on 5% well three hours later with continuously video playback phone calls and games i found my phone is still showing 5% I'm little over 12 hours I'm trying to calibrate it right now to see if that helps or something just waiting for this thing to die :)
[Motorola Droid X2] rothjm:
juhde - you've been helpful on several forums but that was uncalled for (to colonel187). :mad:

I'm also seeing the same battery issues.

My battery life is much worse than on Froyo.

I was EASILY getting 20+ hours.

Now I can barely go 8 hrs with limited use and the system dumbed down.

Stripped way down and minimized all the typical power hungry settings. Re-calibrated Battery. (shuts off when down to zero, accurate)

Formatted everything before reload and only installed the basics and froze all the bloat.

I had very little issues on Froyo but I don't want to go back.

I'm no dummy so don't go blaming the user.

Edit: I just found zeppelinrox's battery cal...I will try that.

http://xdaforums.com/show...8&postcount=10
[Motorola Droid X2] juhde:
I apologize to everyone, I was out of line. Even though it's no excuse I'm under a ton of stress right now, my dad's in the hospital, AND I had a lot to drink yesterday. The combo obviously made me a mean bastard. How ever, I see why I said what I did. Obviously not everyone is blaming the update but there are several who are, in fact their posts straight up say it's gingerbreads fault. In my high stress/chemically altered brain I got mad and I shouldn't have.

Again, my apologies to everyone.
[Motorola Droid X2] colonel187:
Instead of playing the blame game let's figure out how to remedy this issue. I am not a dev though I'm learning, but I am not a noob either. I've been modding and flashing androids and ios, for a few years now. Plus many of us on this forum are having the same issue.

All I can say from multiple sbf's and re updating etc is that before the update I got 18+ hours of battery.

After the update (every time) rapid idle battery drain. Same apps, same bloat removal, different battery stat % .

Tested with fresh install and with all my apps restored, no difference.

Any other ideas?
[Motorola Droid X2] juhde:
Are you using titanium to restore apps, or are you re downloading them from the market?
[Motorola Droid X2] rothjm:
My first reload I restored apps using MyBackupPro. But the last couple of times I didn't restore anything at all. Just contacts from GMAIL.
[Motorola Droid X2] colonel187:
I used titanium (app only no data)

I've also tried downloading from the market. I've also let it go 8 hours with no downloaded apps

Im trying it again

Fresh sbf, wipe, update, wipe, battery stat wipe at 100%. Currently letting it die. Im also experiencing the obvious incorrect reporting of battery %

I know it most likely is not GB to blame but that is literally the only thing that has changed. This is frustrating.
[Motorola Droid X2] juhde:
Okay, if it's not caused by the restore then it must be something I've done and you haven't.

For one thing I de bloated the heck outta my phone.

Unfortunately I didn't compile a list of everything I removed. TiBu says I have 141 system apps, not sure what I started with either but I probably removed 80 or so things. First the obvious stuff, then I went slowly, freezing 2 or 3 things at a time then checking stuff out to see if any function was broke. After I was satisfied everything still worked and I'd removed everything I deemed unnecessary I waited a day then deleted everything frozen.

As far as I can tell this is the only thing we've done differently. As seen from my screen caps, I'm getting even better life than froyo (which was +- 18 hours) if cleaning up system apps doesn't work I literally don't know what to tell you.
[Motorola Droid X2] juhde:
Just had another thought, I'm at home a lot so I have wifi nearly 100% of the time. Because of this I have my wifi radio set to never turn off (settings> wireless & networks> wifi settings> press menu button> advanced> wifi sleep policy) back on froyo I found that if I had wifi set to turn off with the screen it was costing me almost 3 hours of battery!

Just a thought/suggestion.
[Motorola Droid X2] colonel187:
Wow 80. Ok ill give those things a try.
[Motorola Droid X2] Loswave:
I'm sorry to hear about your dad. I understand how that can affect you, I've had a lot of things happening over the past year and am just getting back to being myself now.

I guess I didn't notice anybody specifically blaming the rom itself, but then again over my years on the internet I've sorta built up a subconscious filter to that sort of thing, haha.

Anyways, I finished the calibration all the way to zero, charged back up and took it off at 4am last night. It's been running over 11 hours and is now down to 78%. Admittedly not much usage, but it's still better than I ever got with froyo. I'll have to see how the rest of the discharge goes, but I think mines cured. [knock on wood] I would also point out that my phone idle indicates 75% of the current battery usage is phone idle and 12% cell standby. So I agree with juhde that definitely isn't the issue. In fact, from what I'm seeing right now I would hazard a guess that not only does it not increase phone idle battery usage, I would say the discrepancy is actually because cell standby likely uses less.

I'm thinking for those of you still having the issue you may want to explore the wake lock scenario. Those of you with the android sdk, hook up your phone and run: ./adb shell cat /proc/wakelocks . Sometimes you can find the extraneous locks there. That didn't help me at all, but that's because it was battery calibration in my case. Something to note here would be the fact that if a program is holding partial wake locks, that doesn't mean it's actually executing anything, it's supposed to be, but it doesn't have too. It could be waiting for something. In that case it would be holding the lock, idling your proc for no reason, rather than leaving it in sleep. Therefore, it wont show up as a top user in battery usage, task managers, or system panel. Might be worth a shot.
[Motorola Droid X2] theguru1974:
You guys are mentioning battery calibration a lot, can someone share a link for how to do this exactly?

Eric
[Motorola Droid X2] lostconfuzed:
There is a battery calibration application in the market. What battery monitoring application are you guys using that gives you such exact numbers? The widget I use only gives me values in increments of 10 and it's rather annoying.
[Motorola Droid X2] Loswave:
I'm using system panel. It's the only thing I've found that will give exact numbers on the X2. I think the paid version is like 3 bucks or so, but well worth it in my opinion.

Since I last posted my battery was doing alright, then it tried to download a 40 MB update while I was underground. :/ that killed about 40 % of the batt right there, no biggie though. I let it drain down to about 20% or so and ended up with about 18 hours out of it. I figured it was mostly because of the near zero coverage download though, and likely was for the most part. Charged it up, came home went to sleep. When I did it was at 90% after being off charge for 45 mins. I checked it 9 hours later and it was down to 50%. And it blew through the rest of the battery in no time flat today... So whatever the issue is it's back. At this point I'm just going to reflash, if the issue comes back again then perhaps I'll put some more time into actually trying to figure out what it is.

What I will however leave you with is a question for all those who do have the problem and those who don't. Did you have a problem where you would receive duplicate text messages prior to the update, or did you need to reboot the phone often for any reason?

I suspect the answer to this by both parties may give me an idea as to what the problem is, the bad news is if it is what I'm thinking there really isn't much of a way to correct it.
[Motorola Droid X2] juhde:
Nope, never had any dup texts. The only trouble the phone had given me on any version was the locked bootloader...

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[Motorola Droid X2] Loswave:
I kinda figured as much. I'll be interested to hear what some more people have to say on that matter, but I know for a fact that mine had a major memory leak issue which would cause duplicate sms, some times even up to 6 or more of the same. Also caused marketplace downloads to flake out. The interesting thing was that after a fresh reboot it would work great for 18 to 24 hours before the leak got bad enough to screw everything up again. My suspicion at this point is that the leak was retained, and GB does a much better job of containing the problem. This is of course going to be at the cost of a fair amount of battery. and you wouldn't necessarily see it show up while checking for wakelocks, or errant processes. I could explain in much greater detail, but I doubt anybody really cares, lol.

I figured I'd try a few more things before I give up and re-image, I'm sorta getting the impression that it's a bit of a crapshoot as to whether your going to have the problem or not, so I'd rather try to figure out exactly what it is instead of just re-imaging it till it works.

In short, at this point I think entering recover and wiping data and cache would have a much better shot at fixing the problem than re-imaging. I know that the memory leak is a froyo holdover, and motorola specifically said they were fixing the duplicate text issue in this update... so in theory the data wipe, would get rid of that leak... Meh, it's a theory, we'll see over the next few days if it holds any water.

I stopped by motorolas forums to see what the people over there had to say about it. I saw lots of problems but no one mentioned the battery, so it has got to be a fairly rare problem. What I did see was a whole lot of, factory reset ( data and cache wipe ;) ) fixed it.
[Motorola Droid X2] colonel187:
I never had dupe sms. For the life of me I can't figure out why my battery drain is so high. I may go back to froyo also.
[Motorola Droid X2] juhde:
Exactly how long its your battery lasting? I don't remember you ever throwing a number out there.

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[Motorola Droid X2] Smackychops:
I've run my phone through three full discharge cycles now. No use whatsoever. Just charged to 100%, unplugged, and turned on to check battery stats every hour until the phone shuts itself down. I have google voice, so I've been using my computer to respond to texts and calls, and not my phone, just to further cut that variable out. It's bad for the battery, I know, but I have more than one (battery), so I'm not that worried. The phone lasts for ~18 hours on a single charge, give or take an hour depending on how coverage is, I suppose.

Running: P3's Pre-rooted STOCK GB.

WIFI: off

GPS: off

Mobile Data: on

Sync: on

Accounts added: Google only.

Average e-mail pushed per discharge cycle: 3

Average google voice txts pushed per discharge cycle: 23

Average calls received per cycle: 4 (not answered with phone)

Google Talk: signed in (average messages pushed to phone <1)

Average phone idle: 79% battery

Average display: 19% battery

An aside: I have only the VZN wireless apps frozen. I don't really think that's where the drain is coming from though, since I have not been using any apps at all (and, by extension, calling them into memory) besides the google apps that get called when mail, texts, etc get pushed to the phone.
[Motorola Droid X2] Heelpir8:
Download and install the Battery Calibration app from the Market, charge your phone to 100%, run the app to replace the system battery file, let the phone/battery run completely out of juice and charge back to 100% while the phone is off.
[Motorola Droid X2] colonel187:
On froyo I would be at around 30% after 18 hours. Since GB update I can only get 15 hours before phone shuts off from dead battery. But the big thing is it drains like crazy when it's idle. Over night will drain 50%
[Motorola Droid X2] juhde:
Did you ever start clearing out system apps? I'm wondering if it might be Home doing it. Instal a 3rd party launcher and use TiBu to uninstall Home, cause it runs even if you don't use it unless you remove it. Could be the problem.

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[Motorola Droid X2] Smackychops:
I almost forgot: I'm using ADW with the blur launcher frozen.

Anyways, it seems like the phone is constantly waking throughout the discharge. I'll have to check the wakelocks when it's charged again.
[Motorola Droid X2] juhde:
Just freezing Home doesn't keep it from running, you have to uninstall it. I've done it with no ill effect.

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[Motorola Droid X2] Smackychops:
I'll give that a try when my phone comes back online again. The problem with doing these tests is how bloody long it takes to discharge and to charge again.
[Motorola Droid X2] EvilTim:
Just left mine unplugged over night, 8 hours later Im @ 90%
[Motorola Droid X2] LancerV:
Yea I was at 95 percent
[Motorola Droid X2] colonel187:
I did. I just un-installed home, it was frozen. Using go launcher.
[Motorola Droid X2] juhde:
Now that it's uninstalled, I'm hoping to see improvement on your idle battery life. Let us know!

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[Motorola Droid X2] colonel187:
Will do. Im monitoring it all day with system panel.
[Motorola Droid X2] Smackychops:
what's the reasoning behind uninstalling home again? just curious. do you think it's getting called by the OS even when the screen is off or something?
[Motorola Droid X2] colonel187:
Ok its been 11 hours since unplug. I got 20% batt left. Phone was idle 70% of the day, just a few sms and a quick phone call.
[Motorola Droid X2] rothjm:
That is about the battery life I'm getting.

Nearly completely dead after about 12 hours with very little use.

I tried a full rebuild again last night (started with battery @ 100%, wiped data and cache).

Did a recalibrate this morning.

I'm not very confident it will make much difference...I'm already down to 90% after 1 hr (charged over night). (Standby Idle: 75%, Display: 10%, Cell Standby:15%)

Running with everything frozen that I'm not using.

No GPS, WIFI, BlueTooth or hardly any extra apps from stock.

Dimmed as low as the display will go. No live background.

I am on the stock blur launcher.
[Motorola Droid X2] colonel187:
Ok did a fresh wipe last night. Factory reset 3x , format system,data,cache, 3x . Installed p3 gb aio update. De-bloated everything , only installed system panel, google voice, tapatalk. Sat over night after full charge, woke up to 70%. Been surfing for 30 min on it and phone idle is still double screen use....

After googling for a few hours, I have found that almost every phone that recieved the 2.3.3 update has had this issue but I cannot find any real fix for it. Many people say wifi is to blame but I don't usually use wifi, for a manditory $30 a month for data I use 3g as much as possible... Other people blame the radio version, atrix 4g blames radio and background sync. None of these make any sense to me because as i've said before on 2.2.2 I have my phone set up the same as I re-set it up after the 2.3.3 update, yet on 2.2.2 I would be at 30-40% after 18 hours, where 2.3.3 my batt is dead after 12-15 hours. and phone idle is 75%

this is so frustrating and it is a stupid problem.
[Motorola Droid X2] colonel187:
Um......................

ok I just sbf'ed backt o froyo and after I activated the phone it loaded straight into golauncher with my desktop intact.

Shouldn't sbf erase/overright everything on the phone?!?!?!?!?!?

WTF ?:confused:
[Motorola Droid X2] EvilTim:
Sometimes stuff is left over, its why you should wipe caches before sbf and do a factory reset after
[Motorola Droid X2] LancerV:
It's not a full sbf its just a system restore sbf so it only replaces system apps
[Motorola Droid X2] rothjm:
I might be good this time.

I'm going on 6 hrs and still have 80% left...no way would I have done that before.

3 things I might have done different.

1. Loaded up while battery was 100% (uncertain where it was in prev restores)

2. Made certain I wiped data and cleared cache (not 100% sure I cleared all cache on other reloads)

3. I didn't 'auto-end' any apps in Task Manager (maybe there was one that kept starting and getting ended, using power)
[Motorola Droid X2] L2_n19h7m4r3:
Ever since 2.3.3 (rooted) I haven't experienced any of the battery idle issues; in fact my battery life is better after using Battery Calibration (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.nema.batterycalibration&feature=search_result) and of course removing the verizon bloat from the phone. Still using almost all elements of blur.
[Motorola Droid X2] stein5830:
You nay want to check time without signal. After I flashed the pre rooted gb my battery life has improved.
[Motorola Droid X2] colonel187:
Its not cell standby that's killing it its phone idle. I was wiping and re wiping everytime, however I was doing it in cwm not android recovery. Being that cwm is actually a modded port of the ATRIX recovery, maybe it isn't wiping correctly.

This time I wiped in android recovery 2x and wiped cache 2x then upgraded and re wiped 2x. We shall see.

Phone idle is still way out of control % wise, but I have only lost 6% in 3 hours and I've been lightly using the phone also.